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Patrick Bringley
“The Met is a place where, with your own eyes, you can see what fellow fallible humans have made of the world that you live in.”
Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I don’t really care much for hearing “both sides” or “opposing points of view,” so much as I care about understanding the literary tools deployed to advance those views—the discipline of voice, the use of verbs, the length and brevity of sentences, and the curiosity of mind behind those sentences.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Patrick Bringley
“When we adore, we apprehend beauty. When we lament, we see the wisdom of the ancient adage “Life is suffering.” A great painting can look like a slab of sheer bedrock, a piece of reality too stark and direct and poignant for words.”
Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Marie-Helene Bertino
“The human life span was perfectly designed to be brief but to at times feel endless. A set of years that pass in a minute, eternity in an afternoon. Yet in the same way competing weather fronts produce a climate that’s right for a tornado, brevity versus eternity (the push-pull that contains everything) is the condition for romantic love, sorrow, betrayal, joy. Countless meaningless profound transactions.”
Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

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